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Inferno is an allegory of the pilgrimage of the soul and Dante draws on the mythological dimensions to convey and express the spiritual journey that he is on. Dante construct of hell is his own and his judgement is reflected by the societal norms which were present during his time. Allegory, in the traditional definition is a story or poem that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. Allegorically, the journey which Dante goes on represent the journey of

regarded as a morality play that was written in late 15th century. According to Michael A. Babcock, author of the story of Western culture, “Morality plays can be explained in best ways because of allegories figure out efforts made between seven virtues and seven vices contained in heart of man”. The play is a picture of what Christians should do or how they should spend their lives to save their souls from being convicted by death (Yaw Adu-Gyamfi P.265). The understanding of death in “Everyman” play

Does deviating from one’s gender norms inevitably doom one down a spiral of moral corruption? Tim O'Brien, author of “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” and Ernest Hemingway, author of “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”, certainly seem to hold this view, as evident by the fates of the major female characters in their respective works. The deviance of the major female characters in both works appears to corrupt not only themselves, but also pollute their partners, causing them to suffer injury

Antigone Essay In the story of “Antigone” Antigone wanted to give her brother a proper burial that was a law King Creon had made. Antigone loved her brother and was not satisfied with her brother’s improper burial. Even though if anyone in the city disobeys Creon’s law will be immediately punished, she did not have concern for herself only for her family. Creon was acting out of hatred and humility and did not have any concern for his new law that most did not agree with. When comparing Antigone

Antigone: Study Guide – 50 points 1. In literary terms, a tragedy is a play in which the leading character suffers as they overcome various adversities that eventually lead to a final ruinous calamity. The play is traditionally divided into five parts, each presenting the protagonist in different stages of discovering or resolving the crisis.. 2. The five characteristics that define a tragic hero are hamartia (tragic flaw), hubris (arrogance), anagnorisis (a startling discovery), peripeteia (reversal

In Heaney’s, ‘Blackberry picking,’ he sets the poem within two uneven stanzas, depicting the romantic memories of nature that humans often feel, then contrasting it with the result of their greed and disappointment. The poem’s fast flowing rhyming couplets add a softness and sweetness to the poem, allowing taste connotations of the blackberries when they at at their ripest. In addition, it almost becomes a musical lit, without any rigidity to hold back Heaney’s emotions. At the beginning of the

An ancient Greek aristocrat once said, “Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many…” (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/209465-things-are-not-always-what-they-seem-the-first-appearance) This statement is an ever-present motif in William Shakespeare’s 1606 King Lear, a play filled with deceit, characters in disguise, and the modifications of circumstances. The characters did not understand how the play was going to turn out, and still the original spectators, the Elizabethans

As we have read many stories in this class, a lot of the theme are about faith, sins, and how they all correlate and have some relations one way or another. Throughout all the stories and short poems, we’ve read, the theme teaches us readers one thing: DO NOT SIN. It has some faithful and valuable lesson that meets the readers eye. One of the short stories we had “How Much Land Does a Man Need” by Leo Tolstoy it captures the theme of greed and teach us having everything we want won’t make us truly

our sensory memory, in information is sent on to the second stage, short-term memory” (Doyle-Portillo & Pastorino 271). The memory will last only about 20-30 seconds when it reaches the short-term memory. Because the short-term memory can hold about seven plus or minus two items, Roger could have payed close attention to the color of her eyes and hair too. Maybe when he leaves the

I’ve come to identify with the masculinity of my gender and establish my sexual orientation as a hetereosexual individual during the earlier stages of my life. Because my older siblings, not to mention my parents, would discuss their sexual experiences in my presence, my curiosity was peaked. Thus, I began to explore my sexuality. During my pre-teenage years, I had already engaged in numerous sex related acts. In comparison to the typical 7 year old boy, I would have to say my mind developed at a